Grain-separator.



P. JORGENSON.

GRAIN SEPARATORI APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16. 1916.

1,243,528 Patented oet. 16, 1917.-

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GRAIN SEPARATOR.

.APPLICATION FILED oc.16,1915.

1,243,528., Patented 0ct.16,1917.

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F.1ORGENSON.

GRAIN SEPABATOR.

APPLICATION FxLED 0m16.191s.

Patnted Oct. 16, 1912.

WIT/158858 Nro/mns P. JORGENSON.

GRAIN SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION FILED ocT.1e. 1916.

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WIT/M8858 sa@ 63 7W J8 J7 MQW M C? ATTORNEYS BETER J'ORGENSON, OF WATEETOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA.

- GRAIN-SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

Application filed October 16, 1916. Serial No. 125,810.

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, PETER JoRGnNsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Watertown, in the county of Codington and State of South Dakota, have invented a certain new and usefuly Improvement in Grain-Separatora of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in grain separators, and has for its object to provide posite side from Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 isa longitudinal section;

Fig. 4 is an enlargedpartial longitudinal section through the screen or sieve;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of aportion of the sieve; a

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the regulating valve;

Figs. 7, 8, and 11 are sections on the lines 7-7, 8 8, and 11`11 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the shoe and sieves, and Fig. 10 is aperspective view of the shoe operating mechanism. Y

The present embodiment kof the invention comprises a frame 1 of suitable size and arrangement, the said frame consisting of standards or uprights connected by suitable cross plates and beams, anda hopper 2 is arranged at the top of the frame at one end thereof. y

rIhis hopper has a discharge opening 3 in its base, and a valve 4c shown in detaily in Fig. 6, isl slidably mounted on the bottom of the hopper for varying the size of the opening, ythe valve being movable over the opening for this purpose. The valve is shown as T-shaped, having a stem 5 to which is rotatably connected the inner end of a threaded rodr 6. This rod passes through the vertical portion of anr angle bracket 7 secured to the hopper bottom at the outer side thereof, and a nut 8, threaded onto the rod is secured to the bracket. It will be evident that, by turningthe nut 8` in screen being hinged as indicated at 10 to the A bottom of the hopper adjacent to the bracket 7 before mentioned. Because of this arrangement, the screen may swing out to open up the hopper, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, thus permitting access to the hopper when desired for any purpose.

The sieve or screen 9 is a coarse sieve, and the said sieve will retain all the unt-hreshed wheat heads, straw, weeds, and cockle burs, thereby permitting the machine to feed more evenly and the screen may be emptied nby tipping, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, to cause the material held thereon to discharge outside of the machine.

A rod 11 is arranged transversely of the bottom of the hopper at the feed opening and above thewsame, and this rod is connected with a shaking shoe to be presently described and moves with the shoe to prevent clogging of the feed opening. A fan casing 12 is arranged at the opposite end of themachine from the hopper, and a -dis-` charge chute 13 of the fan delivers just below'rthe feed opening, so that the grain pass ing through the opening will be subjected to a current of air from the fan 14 mounted within the casing 12.

A screen or sieve 15 is mounted in inclined position below the hopper, the said screen `having its upper end placed aty the upper end of the discharge chute 13 of the fan, and from the chute the screen inclines downwardly and outwardly. This screen isl mounted in the shaking shoe, indicated gen erally at 16, and the lower end of the screen is supported by a rod 17 arranged transversely of the shoe, the ends of the yrod being p mounted in vertical slots 13 in the shoe.y

The ends of the rod are provided with nuts outside of the shoe, and it will be obvious that by tightening these nuts the lower end of the screen may be held in adjusted position to vary the inclination of the screen.

An inclined feed plate 19 is arranged directly below the screen 15. The upper end of the feed plate 19 is arranged directly belgen. thelower side vof the discharge chute 13 of the fan, and the lower end of the plate is above a series of screens to be described,Y

the said screens inclining downwardly away from the plate. rlhe grain falling through the screen 15 falls upon the plate 19 and is delivered to the series of screens before mentioned.

Six screens are mounted on the shaking shoe below the screen l5 and the plate 19. The screen 20, which is adjacent to the feed plate A19, comprises an open rectangular frame secured to the shoe and within the iframe is secured a sheet of galvanized metal, for instance, sheet iron or Zinc, provided with `'circular openings as shown, the said openings being of a uniform and definite size. rlhe frame lis inclined as shown, and the screen delivers to a second screen 21 similar in all respects tothe screen 20 and having its upper end directly below the lower end of the screen 20. Above each of these screens rods are arranged transversely, and suspended from each rod is a sheet 23 of flexible material, as for instance, rubber. .Each sheet has loops or eyes 24 for engaging the rod, and the lower cloth of each screen overlaps .the uppermost cloth of the said screen.. The sheets 23 have an aggregate width approximately equal to the width of the screens, and the object of the cloths is to keep the grainv and cockle from rolling and jumpingrover the screens, and force the said grain and cockle to move slowly over the screen, forcing the cockle through the screen while the grain passes over the same. Furthermore, since cockle has a rough sur- Jface, it .is held back to some extent by the `rubber cloths, and because ofthe fact that the cloths are loosely mounted on the rods and may move with respect to the screens, the cloths tend to force the cockle through the screen, while the grain, having smooth surfaces, will slide along between the cloth and the screen. The sheets 23 are of lesser -widththan the screen, as shown, so that a limited motion may be permitted between the said cloths and the screen.

Immediately below the lower edge of the screen 21 is a discharge trough 25 which inclines downwardly and laterally with respect to the screen, delivering outside of the machine. rhis discharge trough carries away the large size grain which passes over the screens 20 and 21, the said grain being` clean and Yof lirst grade. All cockle and grain which pass through the screens 2O and 21 a'll upon a screen 26 which is mounted below the said screens 20 and 21 and has a width approximately equal'to the aggregate width of the screens 2O and 21. The screen 26 also has the same inclination as the screens 2O and 21, and the said screen 26 delivers to a pair ot screens 27 and 2S similar tothe screens 2O and 21 and similarly arranged. These screens 27 and 28'have ruband all of the screens 20, 21, 26, 27, 2S, and

31 are similar, being formed from sheet metal Y and having circular perforations. rlhe screens 20, 21, 27, and 2S have openings of the same size. The openings in the screen 31 are somewhat larger than those in the screen 26, being somewhat smaller than `those in the screens 20, 21, 27, and 2S. The openings o the screen 26 are smaller than those of the screens 2G and 21.

A delivering trough 32 is arranged below the lower end of the screen'28 and the said screen delivers to this trough, which in turn delivers laterally from the machine, the second grade grain. All of the impurities and the smallest Vgrain will fall through the screens 26 and 31 `between the machine, said material being designated as screenings. That grain which passes over the screen 31 willbe delivered as third grade grain. r1`hus the machine will deliver three grades of grain, the iirst from the 'screens 20,21; the second from the screens 27', 28, and the ythird from the screen 31.

rEhe frame of each screen is of hard wood ris suspended by links 33 and 34 respectively,

the links 33 being secured at their lowerends to the shoe, while the links 434 are pivoted to the shoe at their lower ends. The upper end of each ,link 83 is provided with a series orn openings, and the lower end of each link 34 is provided with a similar series. V,By means of vthese openings the height of the shoe in the frame may be adjusted.v v The upper ends of the links are pivoted to the frame as indicated at B5 and the shoefis swung by the mechanism shown more particularly in Fig. 10 and comprising a pitman'B connected at one end to an elbow lever' 37 in a bracket 38 on the frame. The pit-man is connected with one arm of vthe elbow and the other arm of the` elbow 4has a slot 39'i`or receiving a pin 40 on the bracket 41 secured to the shoe. kThe otherend of the pitmanhas an angular lug for engaging one of a seriesot openings 42 ina pulley 43 journaled on the frame. These openings are arranged at different distances from the center of the pulley, and it will be obvious that by engaging the pitman with different openings, the speed Vand extent of the shaking of the shoe may be varied. This pulley 43 has two grooves as shown, and is journaled on a screw 44 which is passed through vthe frame 1 and is engaged by a nut to hold the pulley with a pulley 46 also journaled on the frame at the hopper. |I'he pulley 46 has an extension provided with two grooves, One of the said grooves being engaged by the belt 45, While the other is engaged by a belt 48 which connects the pulley 4:6 With a pulley 49 on the fan shaft. The pulley 46 is engaged by a belt from a suitable source of povver for driving the machine.

In operation the grain to be screened is fed into the hopper, and any rough stu' that may be in the grain will be caught by the screen 9, such for instance, as straw, unthreshed heads, and the like, and this coarse stu may be discharged by tilting up the screen. The grain is fed through the discharge opening 3 of the hopper onto the screen l5 Where it meets with a current of air Jfrom the an which cleans the same. The grain is fed then onto the feed plate 19 and passes onto the screens 2O and 21. 'Ihe iirst grade grain is delivered through the discharge trough and the remaining grain passes from the screen 26 onto the screens 27 and 2S, from which the second grade grain is delivered by the trough 32. That grain which passes through the screens 27 and 28 onto the screen 31 and which does not pass through the screen 31, is delivered as third grade grain. The shoe is shaken during the d l. In a separator, an inclined screen, means for imparting a lateral vibratory movement to the screen, presser sheets resting upon the screen, and means connecting the presser sheets at their upper edges With the screen to admit of independent lateral movement between the presser sheets and screen.

2. In a separator, a screen, a plurality of transverse rods mounted upon the screen at intervals in its length, and spaced vvertically therefrom, presser sheets of a less Width than the screen resting thereon, and loops at the upper edges of the presser sheets engaging the said rods loosely to admit of relative independent lateral play between the screen and presser sheets.

PETER JORGENSON.

INitnesses 1WiLLrAM G. GEsLEY, S. F. SLOANE.

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